8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

This week’s tech news in China has all the big names – Google, Baidu, Alibaba, WeChat. But there’s bad news for half of those, and much more positive news for the others. Let’s start with China’s top social media export:

Forget the silly petitions on the White House site in the US because petitioning is an ancient and serious business in China. For ordinary folk with grievances, it might be the only channel to pursue in seeking to get a wrong righted.

The consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce sector in China – on sites like Taobao – has long been boosted by tax-dodging grey imports that make the goods cheaper than in stores or on official online sales channels. But these new digital receipts could finally stamp that out.

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